A Question...

[argosy]

Dealing with converting a .doc file to .html has made me curious. So

Writers:

Do you write in html tags? In other words if you're writing a story in your word processing program of choice and you want to italicize a word will you write < i > on one side and < /i > on the other side (except without spaces)? Or do you italicize or bold it or

Comments

[miscellanny]

Same as you, yep. I always write tags to italicise things in emails, too, and then have to go back and edit. XD

[zinfic]

I write in html tags too, which makes things very confusing when there's something I have to print out and turn in :)

[sgamadison]

Not knowing how to code until late in the game, I write everything in a Word doc, using the italics or bold options, and go back to code by hand when (if) it is time to convert. I post in rich text on LJ--I actually thought I had to convert a Word doc *to* Rich text before posting, that's how coding illiterate I am.

If I come across a coding I don't understand, I go to a post where it is embedded and look at it in the .html mode under edit to see if I can figure out the code.

For everything else, I convert to plain text before coding.

A computer class at some point in my life might have been helpful. Other than, you know, Fortran. :-)

[perspi]

I actually draft stories directly into my LJ/DW, so I write with HTML tags.

It helps to keep my brain straight, also, as everything I write for work is in Word. It seems that I don't have trouble tagging/not tagging because I write in different 'environments'.

[lavvyan]

Depends. If it's a short-ish story, I write in html tags, but if it's longer or employs a certain type of storytelling, I put the tags in later, because all those < and > and whatnot drive me crazy.